Networks for Business
TCA Networks for Business
What are the TCP Networks?
The TCA Network for Business Model allows for businesses from across different sectors to collaborate, share learnings and build collective knowledge towards better practice across the essential services ecosystem. TCA Networks exist across different thematic areas of TCA’s work.
See details about our two established networks, the Network for Business: Prison and Network for Business: Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) below, including how to get involved.
Who is involved?
Membership eligibility in our networks is exclusively for businesses. However, to ensure the networks are informed on current emerging issues affecting the community, there are established relationships with existing community sector networks or communities of practice that focus on the same theme. The relationships vary but involve structured feedback loops and opportunities for collaboration. For example, by sharing relevant issues and insights across the groups and coordinating collective action.
Why a network approach?
The social challenges we face as a society are complex and can’t be solved by just one organisation or industry working independently.
A networked approach drives impactful systems change through:
- Cross sector collaboration
- Adaptive learning
- Incorporating lived and learned experience
- Enhanced innovation
- System wide perspectives
Network principles
- Operates under Chatham House rules to ensure trust and facilitate openness in sharing. It is important members can share where they’re doing well, what they have learned and where they can improve.
- Guided by the principles of good partnering: relishing diversity, building equity, being open, mutual benefit and being courageous.
- Further principles for participation are co-designed by members during the set-up phase of each network.
Get involved
- Are you a business wanting to join one of our network for businesses?
- Are you a community organisation or lived experience advocate looking to get involved?
- Do you have an idea for a new TCA Network for Business theme?
Get in touch with us at contact@thriving.org.au.
Details about our Networks
This networks is for businesses who want to learn more about how they can respond to and support customers who are in prison and existing prison. This includes communicating with service providers and managing thier accounts, to maintain financial stability and access essential services when leaving prison.
Multiple studies, including Financial Counselling Australia’s Double Punishment report and TCP’s Fostering Financial Stability for People in Prison, highlight how integral the essential services ecosystem, including financial, telecommunications and utilities, can be. For many, the support of their service providers means the difference between a chance to reintegrate safely into the community, or longer-term financial issues and increased potential for returning to prison.
Equal access to banking, housing, and essential services are crucial foundations for enabling individuals to thrive and live free from discrimination, and organisations have the power to create positive change and foster community wellbeing through equitable policies and practices that support everyone.
The FDV Network for Business is a collective of Australian essential service businesses who have committed to supporting customers experiencing family and domestic violence. It allows for businesses from across different sectors to collaborate, share learnings and build collective knowledge towards better practice across the essential services ecosystem.
It is for businesses who want to learn more about how they can respond to and support customers experiencing family and domestic violence or financial abuse. It operates under Chatham house rules to ensure trust among members and facilitate openness in sharing. This network is open to membership of organisations beyond the TCA Partnership.
